RONI
HORN
18 Enero - 30 Marzo
CAC
Málaga, Málaga City Council’s
Centre for Contemporary Art, presents the first solo
exhibition in Spain by Roni Horn, one of the most
influential American artists on the international
art scene. The exhibition may be visited until 30
March and is made up of photographs, installations
and two artists’ books.
Málaga’s
Contemporary Art Centre opens its doors to the most
representative works produced over the last decade
by the incomparable Roni Horn. In this, the first
solo exhibition to be presented by the artist in
Spain, the guiding thread is the portrait, a medium
she has developed to its full potential in recent
years.
In
the words of the Director of CAC Málaga,
Fernando Francés, Roni Horn creates an aesthetic
in her work that is decidedly contradictory, bringing
out strange sensations and a surprising attraction
in the viewer. This is not conventional minimalist
art; far from the usual distanced approach, Roni
Horn’s work has much greater warmth because
it has an immediate effect on our emotions, with
the artist taking a direct stand on the issues that
concern her, such as femininity, human roles, and
nature and its relationship to the human being. She
is fascinated by individuality, the particular rather
than the general, the real, identifiable woman above
the others. This apparently straightforward, even
simple image masks a really complex process of observation
and documentation of human experiences and memories.
Through
her painstaking, meticulous work this American artist
captures the tiniest, most imperceptible changes
in reality, thereby highlighting the importance
of observation and perception.
All
of the works on display
in the exhibition are now unquestioned masterpieces
of the artist, and one of the most famous
and recognised is Doubt by Water. The piece consists
of twelve images
produced as six, double-sided photographs
mounted
on aluminium stands. Their contents include
ice, a portrait of a young person and the heads
of several
stuffed birds which are so incredibly lifelike
that spectators can easily become confused as to
the nature
of what they are seeing. As much in this
work as in the others, water is an element to which
the
artist
constantly returns. As she herself says, “Aside
from the physical, sensual reality of water, the
thing that I love is its paradoxical nature[…]
I never intended to have water in everything I do,
but I almost feel that I rediscover it again and
again”.
Besides
viewing the photographs and installations, visitors
to the exhibition at CAC
Málaga will be able to consult two of her
latest publications. The titles of these works are
Index Cixous, inspired by the author Hélène
Cixous, and Weather Reports You, which may be defined
as a collective portrait of Iceland, a land she knows
to perfection.
Roni
Horn, one of the most renowned American artists of
her time, has produced an extensive
oeuvre in a variety of mediums including
sculpture, photography, drawing, essays and artists’ books.
Her work falls within the minimalist current, albeit
a warm minimalism abounding in personal and poetic
references. Her work represents a connecting link
between humanity and nature. Since 1975 Horn has
lived her life between New York and Iceland, a country
with which she maintains close contact and whose
scenery and isolation from the rest of the world
have been a decisive influence on evolution of her
work.
NEXT EXHIBITIONS
DANIEL RICHTER: 11 Abril - 13 Julio
RODNEY
GRAHAM: 21 Abril - 15 JuNio
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